Regulation of doctors is archaic, warns council

REGULATION of doctors is “archaic, dysfunctional and legally confrontational”, the president of the Medical Council said yesterday.

Addressing a conference on competence assurance, Dr John Hillery stressed that the current system of regulating doctors was designed to fail.

He warned that the Irish medical profession was at a watershed following the Lourdes Inquiry report.

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